John Waine

Not to be confused with John Wayne or John Wain.

John Waine KCVO (born 20 June 1930) was Bishop of Chelmsford from 1986 to 1996; and previously Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich from 1978 to 1986, Bishop of Stafford, 1975–1978. He also served as Clerk of the Closet from 1989 to 1997, and in retirement served as a lay member on the Press Complaints Commission. Educated at Prescot Grammar School and the University of Manchester he studied for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at St Mary's, West Derby(Liverpool). Incumbencies at Ditton, Southport and Kirkby in the same diocese followed before elevation to the Episcopate in the mid seventies. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.

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Church of England titles
Preceded by Richard George Clitherow	Bishop of Stafford 1975–1978	Succeeded by John Stevens Waller
Preceded by Leslie Wilfrid Brown	Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich 1978–1986	Succeeded by John Dennis
Preceded by Albert John Trillo	Bishop of Chelmsford 1986–1996	Succeeded by John Freeman Perry
Preceded by John Bickersteth	Clerk of the Closet 1989–1996	Succeeded by Jonathan Bailey